Prisons Minister Andrew Selous said in a written ministerial statement that prisons had been recording information about overcrowding, incorrectly, for the last six years
The National Offender Management Service Annual Reports failed to record that two prisoners, not one,
were living in crowded conditions when they were in a cell designed for one prisoner.
Mr Selous said ‘it is unacceptable that those incorrect figures have been published since 2008-9 and that these errors were not identified sooner. Since discovering these errors we have taken urgent steps to More...

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